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**Responsibilities**:
- Set and execute impactful customer acquisition strategies for the Italian Central Government to include awareness of areas in that Salesforce has a consistent track record, crafts demand, and identifies key procurement frameworks.
- Foster relationships at senior Government levels using the current network and growing it
- Provide detailed business development strategy focused on the top government executives and transformation areas where salesforce can bring tremendous value and nurture and advance those opportunities
- Identify and advance new customer opportunities at strategic, operational, and tactical customer-facing levels; Manage overall business development process, driving appropriate metrics for sales funnel management
- Align with Strategic Account Executives, industry leads, and regional sales leadership teams to present a single front to help represent a single vision for our customers.
- Where relevant, interface with the product development and marketing organizations to help guide Public Sector product direction and production of sales plays for any country-specific needs
**Required Skills**:
- Proven track record and success with transformation initiatives in Government including a deep understanding of Government Cloud Transformation enablers and drivers
- 15+ years of senior experience in Government or Systems Integrator with a focus on Government with domain expertise in one or more of the areas: healthcare, education, infrastructure, unemployment/social services, defense, interior, or cities/regions
- Proven track record of generating business opportunities that contribute to the year-on-year growth
- Own a network of relationships in the public sector and its ecosystem
- Passionate about the public sector and how technology can improve citizen experience and Government efficiency
**Additional Skills/Experience**:
- Strong track record of tailoring focused capture plan objectives, strategies, and tactics in conjunction with quantifying and qualifying opportunities
- Comfortable interfacing directly with customer decision-makers to shape market opportunities
- Proven experience gaining access to decision-makers and establishing strategic relationships and successes for long-term partnerships
- Consistent track record of building satisfied, loyal, and referenceable customers
- Strong operational and analytical abilities
- Establish and maintain professional relationships with leaders in the public sector space and within the industry and be known as a professional resource to the industry
- Participate in selected Government/Industry Associations briefings to industry, and industry briefings to government
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